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Often the setting for a literal [[Darkest Hour]], and can result in widespread [[Darkness Equals Death]]. Don't be surprised if a [[Dark World]] happens to have a bad case of this.
See also [[Colour
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Fanfiction ==
* [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/story-corona-blaze.html Corona Blaze], a ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic, provides a [[Endless Daytime|rare]] [[Inverted Trope|inversion]] with a ''daytime'' that lasts forever. A great deal of fanwork involving Celestia transforming the way her sister did tends to share this theme.
** Antipodes features both, with the sun and moon freezing in place.
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* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', a character tells about the [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Long Night]] back in the [[Age Of Myths]], which lasted a generation when [[Eldritch Abomination|The Others]] almost overran all of Westeros. And now, they're rising again...
* An old folk story, adapted as ''The Moon in Swampland'' by M.P. Robertson, reverses the trope to have the Moon vanish, but with a similar effect. The Moon visits a swamp out of curiosity about the world below, where she's quickly captured, chained up and thrown into a sealed well by the bogies. Once her light's gone, they completely rule the night; every sunset ushers in hours of horror for the miserable humans, until a hero returns the world to normal by finding and freeing her.
* Let's not forget the classic: ''Darkness'' by [[Lord Byron]]. Long story short, society collapses as all people panic and [[Kill
* A Russian children poem "Stolen Sun" by Korney Chukovsky narrates about how the crocodile consumed Sun and how the bear gave him a proper pummeling and forced to release the star back into the sky. No, it doesn't make sense in context either, but it does takes on the motives of Slavic myths about a dragon stealing the Sun and imprisoning it for thirty three years, cuing global night and cold.
* [[Robin Jarvis]]' ''The Deptford Mice'': {{spoiler|Jupiter intends to put out the sun and cause eternal winter}}.
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== Live [[Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', The Beast blocked out the sun over Los Angeles, giving vampires and other demons a chance to come out and play without worrying about their curfew. After a few days or weeks of this, L.A. begins to look distinctly [[After the End]][[Buffy
* In ''[[Tin Man (TV)|Tin Man]]'' the [[Wicked Witch]] planned on locking the suns behind the moon during a solar eclipse.
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has used this trope a couple of times:
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* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[The Wind Waker]]'', Ganondorf casts a curse onto the Great Sea that [http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Endless_Night prevents dawn from ever coming.] Fortunately, this does Link more good than bad, as it ensures that Link will always get Nayru's Pearl first due to the pirates taking time off at Windfall Island until morning. This same curse is also used in a more-localized fashion in the Forsaken Fortress, Ganondorf's base of operations. {{spoiler|When Ganondorf abandons the joint to go after Zelda, however, the curse is lifted there, as well.}}
* ''[[Touhou Project|Imperishable Night]]'' sees the fugitive Lunarians in Gensokyo using powerful magic to seal the land from their home world, with a false moon placed in the artifical sky created as part of the spell. This causes lots of problems for humans and youkai alike, which in turn requires the heroines to help solve the problem.
** Subverted big time; The Night That Never Ends is ''[[What the Hell, Hero?|caused by your heroines]]'' to buy time. The false moon only appears at night, and if you fail to reach the source of the problem and fix it before the supposed time for dawn, [[Nonstandard Game Over|the game ends]]. Also, Keine Kamishirasawa (who defends the humans) and either one of Reimu Hakurei (who enforces law) or Marisa Kirisame (who is pissed off with your unnatural magic) will fight you to stop your heroines' madman scheme. [[Let's You and Him Fight|Let's You And Him Fight]], definitely. [[All There in the Manual|Supplemental material]] even indicates that most people in the land were completely unaware of the true threat and just assume the heroines actually solved the problem of the unending night.
** In fact, during the True Final Battle, once you defeat [[Big Bad|Kaguya]], she uses her power over "eternity" to tear apart your spell causing the imperishable night. Every time you die to a section of her final spell card, the time advances 30 minutes. If it reaches 5:00 during that time, the sun rises and the game ends. That doesn't cause a bad end, but losing all your lives during her stage will speed time all the way to 5:00 in one go and triggers the bad end, presumably due to her power. [[Cue the Sun]] is subverted big-time here.
** Let's not forget the original Windows Touhou game, ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', where [[Big Bad]] Remilia Scarlet's scheme was to block out the sun with a thick red mist, just so she could go outside whenever she wanted (she's a vampire).
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Little Pony]]'': The [[Trope Namer]]. Causing neverending night was the plan of the bad guy in the very first My Little Pony animated adaption, a television special from 1984. Said bad guy, an demonic-looking centaur, quotes the Trope name word by word.
** This is also the plot of the [[Big Bad]] in the pilot episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' (a clear shout out to the 1984 special:
{{quote| '''Nightmare Moon''': Remember this day, little ponies, for it was your last. From this moment forth, THE NIGHT. WILL LAST. '''FOREVER'''!!!}}
*** Because of the [[Painting the Frost On Windows|hands-on nature]] of... well, nature in this series, some fans have grossly underestimated the threat level of this. [[Word of God]] has made clear, however, that this ''would'' cause the death of every living thing in Equestria, by starvation if nothing else.
*** The Fandom has taken this to new, terrifying extremes of terror and [[Fridge Logic]]. The Pony Psychology series has an entire chapter of [[What the Hell, Hero?]] dedicated to Luna confronting Celestia over this, and Celestia painting the horror for her. In addition, several webcomics portray in gruesome detail just what a slow death eternal night would be.
* When ''[[The
** She even got [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=374xW4zZbZA a great song] about it.
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'', "Boogie Frights": the Boogie Man blocks the sun with a giant mirror ball so that monsters can stay outside forever.
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